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...Government may be able to handle the financial hazards of auto insurance. But how? In 1869, the Supreme Court ruled that "insurance is not commerce," thus exempting it from federal antitrust laws and congressional regulation of interstate commerce. In 1945, after the court had reversed itself, the McCarran-Ferguson Act put all insurance under state supervision. But many Congressmen now believe that the states are flunking the auto-insurance part of their job. A Senate subcommittee has called for a "root and branch" investigation of the entire industry. President Johnson echoed the request in his State of the Union message...
...difference between Cornell and every team Harvard has played to date is defense. If Captain Skip Stanowski (the only senior on Cornell's squad!) is not the best collegiate defenseman in the country, it would be because his partner, junior Bruce Pattison, is. And sophomore Dwayne Ferguson is not that far behind...
...Texas' Ma Ferguson is probably Maddox's closest competitor. In two years in office (1925-27), she gave more than 3,000 prisoners their freedom...
Black & White. Appointed to the federal judgeship for northern Mississippi by President Eisenhower in 1958, Lawyer Clayton, a Democrat who supported Ike, had never shown any signs of dissatisfaction with the Southern way of life. Quite the opposite. "I lived in the era when Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal, was the law of the land," he says now. I had no quarrel with it." Indeed, he had so little quarrel with Mississippi ways that he rose to command one of the state's National Guard divisions (which was totally segregated), ranked as a major general when...
Negroes, in some cases with white help, also showed new strength in lesser contests. In the racially mixed Richmond district, Dr. William Ferguson Reid became the first Negro elected to the Virginia legislature since 1891. Charles City County, Va., elected a Negro sheriff, James M. Bradby, and a county clerk, lona Adkins. Bradby defeated a white incumbent of 43 years' standing. In New Orleans, Attorney Ernest Morial won a seat in Louisiana's state legislature. In Mississippi, Holmes County's Robert Clarke was elected, thus integrating the state legislature, while six other Negroes won posts as county...